That's what I assume. I've seen people criticizing gray morality as 'idealizing people being both good and evil' one too many times, which is just absurd to me, because real people aren't either all-good and perfect or completely evil. And in fact, even the characters cast in these roles are not these things!
Though I will say that mentions of increasingly polarized media activate my startle reflex because of how many times I've seen it used as a lead in to to idealizing specifically conservative 'moderate' opinions. At the same time media (for example in the US) has absolutely become more polarized in perpetuating an 'us vs them' mentality despite the extreme similarities of the 'us' and 'them' mentalities it recognizes once one scratches below the surface of simple slogans. Nowhere in either of these options do I see things moving toward any actually positive resolution, as the one openly declares its disastrous policies to be good while the other claims to decry those but in its actions largely goes along with them while telling everyone with a smile that they are the best anyone can ever hope to have.
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Date: 2021-12-20 09:03 pm (UTC)Though I will say that mentions of increasingly polarized media activate my startle reflex because of how many times I've seen it used as a lead in to to idealizing specifically conservative 'moderate' opinions. At the same time media (for example in the US) has absolutely become more polarized in perpetuating an 'us vs them' mentality despite the extreme similarities of the 'us' and 'them' mentalities it recognizes once one scratches below the surface of simple slogans. Nowhere in either of these options do I see things moving toward any actually positive resolution, as the one openly declares its disastrous policies to be good while the other claims to decry those but in its actions largely goes along with them while telling everyone with a smile that they are the best anyone can ever hope to have.
So. Yeah. Maybe those are related, lol.